Word: copey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the rest of the Faculty whose haughty dignity frosted anyone without at least a full beard and a full professorship, Copey, as he was soon known, became friendly with undergraduates of all sorts. His "open house on Wednesday evening after ten" became the forum of the College where Chaucer might rub elbows with Yale's star half in the discussion. And always, after a little urging, the golden-voiced tutor would read his favorite passages from the Bible, from Kipling, from the classics. The "Copeland Reader," an anthology of these favorites, is the most typical of Copey's books...
Today a poet has replaced Copey as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, and the famous bath sponge no more hangs out to dry from the third floor of Hollis every Saturday night. Copey has ripened into a living legend which will remain a part of the college as long as tradition exists. Harvard will not forget the sympathetic mentor who first rubbed out the Harvard indifference between Faculty and students; the instructor of whom John Reed could say "He stimulated generations of men to find color and strength and beauty in books and in the world, and to express...
Charles Townsend Copeland, known affectionately among generations of Harvard men as "Copey," will give his annual reading of selected English and American verse, Wednesdaynight at 7:30 in the Upper Common Room of the Union...
...Copey has been giving his Christian readings ever since the oldest graduate can remember, and though he was unable to keep on schedule this year, his hundreds of friends will not be disappointed...
Even though his eighty-first year will roll by this coming April, Copey's golden voice, which has flattered many a poem since his readings became famous, has never wavered. His custom of conferences with all who want to meet the famous professor, has kept him in constant touch with undergraduate life...